Nigeria needs great leader to drive development -Dankwambo

Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo, on Tuesday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, for consultation on his 2019 presidential bid and declared that Nigeria needs a “great leader to drive growth and development.”

Dankwambo said the country currently lacks leadership considering the several challenges facing the country, adding that he chose to make himself available for the office presidency in 2019 and proffered solutions to the challenges.

The governor who was appointed the country’s Accountant General by Obasanjo in 2005, said he is “not a stranger to the workings of government,” adding that if elected president in 2019, he would turn around Nigeria’s fortune.

He spoke with journalists shortly after the closed door meeting with the former President at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta.

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Hon. Sikirulahi Ogundele and former deputy governor of the state, Alhaja Salmot Badru, among others.

He lamented that Nigerians were too much in a hurry for change in 2015 and never had the time to rigorously interrogate its proponent – the All Progressives Congress (APC) on whether it was a negative or positive change they were inviting upon the country and its citizens.

According to him, the obvious problems of insecurity, bad economy, growing unemployment, and poverty among others ravaging the country were never the change the country bargained for.

He said: “What our country currently lacks is leadership. What I am however bringing on board is practicable solutions to the challenges confronting us.

“I have done it before and I can do it again. I was Accountant General in Gombe State for six years after which I was Accountant General of the federation for another six years where I served as a technical member of the economic team.

“I am rounding off my two terms as governor of Gombe State, so, I know what ails this country and the solutions.

“From day one I know what to do, I know what people to assemble to work with and take the nation out of the woods. That is why I am in Ogun State to ask for your support to make this beautiful dream come true.”